Bob Mankoff, cartoonist for The New Yorker<\/em>, shares about his first Mac:<\/p>\n

\n Amazingly, you could draw on it with this thing called a mouse, in Mac Paint.<\/p>\n

In practice, it wasn\u2019t so amazing\u2014it was like drawing with a bar of soap, and the cartoons didn\u2019t look very good on a dot-matrix printer. When I showed them to Lee Lorenz, my predecessor as cartoon editor, he wondered what the point was. I had no good answer then, but I liked the Mac so much I wanted to come up with one.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bob Mankoff, cartoonist for The New Yorker, shares about his first Mac: Amazingly, you could draw on it with this thing called a mouse, in Mac Paint. In practice, it wasn\u2019t so amazing\u2014it was like drawing with a bar of soap, and the cartoons didn\u2019t look very good on a dot-matrix printer. When I showed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6812"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20738,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6812\/revisions\/20738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shawnblanc.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}